Biden’s Failures In The Middle East Are A Gift To American Adversaries

Originally appeared in The Federalist

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Tehran, just days after President Biden returned from his visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia.

It will be Putin’s second visit out of Russia since he began his invasion of Ukraine began in February and included meetings with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. By making this visit, Putin teaches Biden an important lesson: America’s deterrence of adversaries around the world depends on its leadership in the Middle East.

In fact, geography matters less in a world that in recent decades has become so interconnected and where many of America’s threats are transnational in nature.

The America First approach to foreign policy embraces this perspective when it comes to working with allies to confront threats, as a recent publication by the America First Policy Institute explained, whether our allies are in the Pacific, the Middle East, or Europe. Just as the Trump Administration aggressively fought Communist China’s exploitation of America’s immigration and education systems, it also penalized European companies for conducting business with Iran.

When it came to the Middle East in particular, the Trump Administration not only saw how Communist China and Russia undermine American interests and security through their influence in the region, and actively worked with allies to deter them.

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